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  -- Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773) -- Letter, March 10, 1746...
• Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
  Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value....
• Style is the dress of thoughts. -- Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773) -- Letter, Nov. 24, 1749
• I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow, -- Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773) -- Letter, Nov.
  6, 1747...
• History is only a confused heap of facts.
• There never was a good war or a bad peace. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) -- Letter to Josiah Quincy, Sept.
  11, 1773...
• Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Xenocrates, iii...
• Despatch is the soul of business. -- Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773) -- Feb, 5, 1750
• Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
  -- Fourth Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)...